A fridge that teleports around and attempts to catch people in order to preserve them like food.

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Inspired by a strange feeling I had one night that a refrigerator was behind me to my left, this fridge loves humanity so much that it wants to "preserve" people over their products. To it, it's saving people from spoiling and rotting. Instead, its trapping them in an anomalously large yet claustrophobic interior alongside frozen human corpses where they slowly die of suffocation and the cold. It typically follows its victims around for one to three weeks, measuring their physical wellness.

To draw in its victims, it will open its freezer door and three tendrils made of ice rapidly grab the target, and it closes its door once their inside. The door exists on the inside, but can't be opened because its a fridge door. For targets it considers especially fit, it will do the same with its normal fridge side. When threatened, it will reanimated the corpses of its fit victims as soldiers for its use, and will deploy all six tendrils to scurry away. During a breach, it had its soldiers announce its intentions to preserve all of humanity.

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Thats a chilling idea jokes aside i can see this working however can't say im a big fan of it just reanimating corpse that means the fridge could theoretically create an army of whats essentially zombies.

After giving it some thought, instead of making soldiers and moving around, it only moves through teleportation pulls people into a mirror of our world, but made out ice and.fridge material, and it stalks people in order to make their corpse follow what it interprets as their daily routine. The land still completely lacks oxygen.

I like this idea honestly, but agree with the zombie comment above. Is it sapient? Or does it just act according to instinct? If it is sapient, where did the motivation come from? I think you are on to something here.

Another angle I'm considering is that the fridge is actually a multiverse travelling entity that freezes people, reanimated them, and "programs" them to follow a set routine, and then it sells its victems to the highest bidder.

I also want to mention that the fridge can inly teleport when outside of someone's direct line of sight, but can teleport when you see it from the corner of your eye, and will try to run if you turn to look at it.

After letting this sit for a while, I think I should give another summary of the fridge at its current state. This is a sentient, dog-like in intelligence, refrigerator that stalks humans, its target being randomly chosen from the global population. It will typically follow them for around one to two weeks.

Occasionally, it will open up its doors and extend six tendrils made of ice, grabbing the victim and dragging them in. Its inside is not anomalously large, so when it's 'full', it will stop its hunting procedure and wait for the cadavers of suffocated people inside to 'expire', remove them, and start hunting for a new victim.

Behavior wise. it usually acts like a typical fridge when it is aware of being monitored, and chooses its victims to draw inside based on how much it likes them. It catches people based on an instinctual desire to preserve them, is picky with its victims due to its limited space, and doesn't mind that the people die from suffocation in a cold, claustrophobic environment surrounded by corpses.

The fridge stalks by teleporting to locations out of sight of the victim, and will leave if they turn to look at it. Its tendrils extend from gaps inside the fridge that go out of sight. The fridge also tries to attach magnets to itself, seeing it like a dog would see a fridge.

I think you could do something really really cool with the basic concept of an entity that wants to "preserve" people but has a different idea of what that means than we would. I'm not experienced on this site, but if I were you I would go the way of having it be more intelligent and motivated by a need to keep people from decaying because in its mind this is the kindest and best thing to do for a thing that will eventually rot. Essentially, since it's a refrigerator and not a biological organism, it sees being preserved as alike to immortality. Even if you are dead.

Also, it could get sad if its corpses were taken from it, maybe? I don't know how a refrigerator would express sadness, but from my point of view making the reader feel sad for a fridge that kills people would be a delicious challenge for a writer and would be awesome if it could be pulled off.

It would need to be a freezer to actually preserve though, instead of just slowing decay a bit, right?

My concept of it would be that the fridge freezes its 'favorites', and is definitely extremely sad when it has to remove a person, or one gets removed. Its got an equally sized freezer and refrigerator, like the one I grew up with one of those double door ones tall enough for a person to be fit in. Its removed all of its shelves to be able to fit people in, and the people are kinda curled up into a ball of sorts (often breaking bones and causing some internal damage) to make the best use of its limited space.

The Foundation infers its motives after it snatches a guard who gave it a magnet, and investigating that the fridge took the best people it stalked, and the better a person was.

The human level intelligence was my original idea, and thinking back to it, that would probably make for a more interesting entity.
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